January 2002 – Oregon Mental Health Archive

Alcohol tax increase attempt – 2002

January 24, 2002

IN THIS BEER AND WINE TAX DRAMA, THE ACTION’S IN THE LOBBY January 27, 2002 | Oregonian Paul Romain sits in his 19th-floor office looking out on Portland’s West Hills, but his gaze is fixed 50 miles south. That’s where Gov. John Kitzhaber has just announced he wants to increase beer and wine taxes by […]

Imprisoned by mental illness – Mark Ray, homeless and without treatment, represents the failure of mental health reform

January 6, 2002

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From The Oregonian, January 6, 2002 – not available elsewhere online Mark D Ray died in Washington County, December 15, 2003. Peer into a tiny concrete room deep inside the Washington County Jail in Hillsboro and you will see, hear and smell unimaginable human suffering. A 43-year-old mentally ill man howls and paces his cell. […]